Choosing tomorrow's children
Subtitle: the ethics of selective reproduction
By: Stephen Wilkinson
Series: Issues in biomedical ethics; Issues in biomedical ethics
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780199273966
Description: Overview: To what extent should parents be allowed to use reproductive technologies to determine the characteristics of their future children? And is there something morally wrong with parents who wish to do this? Choosing Tomorrow's Children provides answers to these and related questions. In particular, the book looks at issues raised by selective reproduction, the practice of choosing between different possible future persons by selecting or deselecting (for example) embryos, eggs, and sperm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-262) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the ethics of selective reproduction; title: Parental duties and virtues; title: Selecting for disability and the welfare of the child; title: Choosing one for the sake of another; title: Treating children as commodities; title: Eugenics and the expressivist argument; title: Enhancement; title: Sex selection.